“Have you asked yourself recently ‘I send my DVT patients home, why don’t I just send my PE patients home as well?’ If so this next journal club will be for you. Next weeks Journal Club on 5/9/13 will be edge or your seat game changing information, unless you live in Canada or Europe where they already do this. We will discuss a recent randomized trial of outpatient PE treatment vs inpatient treatment, as well as risk stratification tools for PE patients. The papers and an ERcast podcast regarding the same subject are below.”

“For this month’s EBM we’re going to discuss head injury patients who are on anticoagulation. The included podcast is short, only 20 minutes, and starts with a discussion of reversing anticoagulation in patients with head bleeds. At the end of the podcast is a discussion on the dispo for elderly patients on anticoagulation with head trauma and negative initial head CTs. I’ve attached two papers that attempt to address this issue.”

“This month’s EBM conference will be discussing the use of single dose Etomidate for RSI in sepsis and it’s controversial association with increased mortality. Attached are the two articles. One is an RCT from an EM attending at Christ Hospital who was interviewed in the attached podcast. The podcast is only 15 minutes and provides a good discussion on the intent of the study as well as it’s strengths/weaknesses. The second article is a meta-analysis of some of the articles that have suggested an association between Etomidate and increased mortality.”